Short Biography

Laura Allen Noel is an Atlanta-based mixed media artist. Her work often explores ideas about reckoning at mid-life, memory, and time. Her photographs are in the collection of The High Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, The Ogden Museum in New Orleans, MOCA GA, The Gregg Museum of Art, and a number of private and public collections. In 2021, she was a finalist for the Atlanta Artadia Awards. She has been a Walthall Fellow and recipient of an Idea Capital Grant. In late 2024, Fall Line Press published her book, Smoke Break, as part of the Red Clay anthology about the American south.

Noel received a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and an MFA in Photography with Distinction from the University of Georgia. She also studied Modern British Literature at Oxford University. Her prints been featured in exhibitions in China, Germany, Canada, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States.

Her photographs have appeared on-line and in print in Photography Now, Hot Shoe (United Kingdom), Photography Quarterly, PHOTONEWS (Germany), Slate Magazine’s Behold Photo Blog, CNN Photo Blog, Lens Culture, Planet, Art News Daily, The Humble Arts Foundation, F-Stop Magazine, One One Thousand, SouthXSoutheast, La Lettre de la Photographie, Consciencious, aCurator, Fraction Magazine, and many others. Aglu Books in Scotland published Withdrawn, a pocket book about her series on discarded library books.

Noel’s artist books are in the collections of the International Center of Photography library in New York, The Houston Museum of Fine Art library, The Cleveland Art Institute library, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, and many private collections.

Past installations include I Used to Know All These Things, at the Slow Exposure Photography Festival, Will Tomorrow Never Come and Locked, Lost at MOCA GA, which was part of the exhibition, Far From Home: Stories of Refugee Girls, To Do at the Spruill Gallery, The Enchanted Forest of Books on the Atlanta Beltline, and Give/Swap/Receive at Emory University.